Synonym: austere, exacting, firm, hard, harsh, severe, strict, stringent. Antonym: bow, gentle. Similar words: eastern, western, consternation, eastern europe, pattern, external, Internet, paternal. Meaning: [stɜrn /stɜːn] 
n. 1. the rear part of a ship 2. United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920) 3. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on. adj. 1. of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect 2. not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty 3. severe and unremitting in making demands 4. severely simple.
n. 1. the rear part of a ship 2. United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920) 3. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on. adj. 1. of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect 2. not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty 3. severe and unremitting in making demands 4. severely simple. 
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61, Instead of entering the water, he landed straddled on an anchor which was racked at the stern.
62, Now this knowledge will be put to a stern test.
63, The stern overseer would never have allowed her to distract the other children.
64, It was a small boat, less than thirty feet from stem to stern.
65, Your tone was so stern and pure and preachy, it excited me.
66, But Thursday morning beaming managers were replaced by stern security guards who refused to even let workers into the building.
67, Stern and I had our one serious dispute about that.
68, He stood at the stern of the yacht with his back to her.
69, She thought of Miguel, stern, slightly stuffy at times, yet so kind and so intelligent.
70, The sailors had run aft to the tender hanging in the stern davits.
71, The waves which lapped over the stern of the raft were our waste-disposal system.
72, The magistrate sat there, stern and erect, as the charge was read out.
73, Draw up a balance sheet and profit and loss account for Stern.
74, Sands looked at him with sadness, less like a stern judge than a kindly doctor.
75, Gumina is old school stern: He speaks little, but says a lot.
76, Men passed us, dark, bearded, stern, armed with sticks, walking swiftly in single file.
77, A meticulous tinkerer with a balding pate and a white-frosted red beard, he is as stern as a preacher.
78, From within the universities there were stern voices of anti-vocationalism and resistance to public demands for responsiveness, strengthening the impression.
79, The captain came in from the wing of the bridge with a hint of a smile on his usually rather stern face.
80, Thomas said Stern was beaten badly before other patrons of the bar stopped the attack.
81, Rhadamanthus, stern judge; in classical mythology, one of those in the infernal regions.
82, The effort to portray Stern as a prince is relentless.
83, South Florida owes him the respect one gives to a stern high school teacher.
84, His lack of charisma and often unhappy persona will contrast sharply with Mandela's awesome humility,[sentencedict.com/stern.html] humour and stern paternalism.
85, Behind the stern blue drapes of the Tory Conference you could feel the pocked walls mouldering to the loud applause.
86, All the instruments, the mast head, bow, and stern lights went dark.
87, It is the Sodom of our century, destroyed for her sins and then left as a stern reminder.
88, In the Malacca strait two speedboats showing no lights approached a bulk carrier from the stern at night.
89, Judge Lyttle is on the bench, receiving status reports on other cases, when Stern and I arrive.
90, Stern twitched his shoulders.
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